The Grapes of Wrath

Matt Gottlieb

Jim Casy

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: Intiman Theatre (Seattle), ACT (SF), Berkeley Rep, Marin Theatre Co., San Jose Rep, Santa Cruz Shakes, Ensemble Theatre Co. (SB), Laguna Playhouse. In LA: Pacific Resident Theatre, Zephyr Theatre, Kingsmen Shakespeare Co., Odyssey Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Colony Theatre & others. In NY: Circle Rep, Soho Rep, New York Shakespeare Festival (Delacorte), The Long Wharf (CT.) Film/TV: Desperate Housewives, Monk, Numb3rs, Still Standing, The Practice, Boston Public,, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, ER, Nash Bridges, JAG, & Wings. Education/Training: BFA from Calif. Inst. Of the Arts. Further Studies with: Stella Adler, Larry Moss, Jean Shelton & Michael Howard.

Steve Coombs

Tom Joad

With ANW: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Horatio in Hamlet, and Villebosse in The Rehearsal. Other Theatres: Pasadena Playhouse: Morris Townsend in The Heiress and Stanton in Matter of Honor.  Theatre @ Boston Court: Dorian in A Picture of Dorian Gray, and Mama's Boy in God Save Gertrude. Film/TV: 90210, The Bold and The Beautiful, Stronger, Desertion, Midnight Sun, The Deafening Silence of a Very Bright Light, Desertion, and Document, among others. Audio Books: Audiofile Best Audio Book Award for Impulse by Ellen Hopkins.  His debut as writer and director of the full feature film The Prop is the Girl will hit festivals this year.

Lindsey Ginter

Pa Joad

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: Broadway: John in 5^th of July. Off-Bdwy at Circle Rep: Emmett Young in A Tale Told, Buddy in Talley and Son and the Prologue and Hamlet’s understudy in Hamlet.  Regional:  Tom Sargent in Skylight,Neil in Sarah’s War, Augie Belfast in The Man Who Had All The Luck.  Film/TV: Hitchcock, Argo, Mercury Rising, Beverly Hills Cop III,  S.W.A.T., Pearl Harbor, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Rizzoli and Isles, Criminal Minds, Shameless, The Practice, JAG, X-Files, Without a Trace, and LOST among others. Education/Training: Paul Mann’s Actor’s Workshop in NYC.  M.A. in Theatre from CSULA.

Deborah Strang

Ma Joad

ANW Resident Artist. With ANW: Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol, Emmy in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Alcandre  in The Illusion, Maria in Twelfth Night, Old Woman in The Chairs, Miss Havisham in Great Expectations , Bessie in Awake and Sing!, Richard III, Noises Off, Ghosts, Hamlet, The Night of the Iguana, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Touch of the Poet, Ubu Roi,Picnic, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Midsummer Nights Dream at The Hollywood Bowl, The Matchmaker, The Price, O Pioneers!, The Cherry Orchard, Bus Stop, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Misanthrope, The Taming of the Shrew,  Heartbreak House, The Little Foxes, Another Part of The Forest, The Threepenny Opera, The Glass Menagerie. Film/TV: Body of Proof,The Newsroom, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, Eagle Eye, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Cold Case, Close to Home, Numb3rs, Kiss the Girls, Things to Do in Denver, The X-Files, Deep Space 9.

Jill Hill

Granma Joad

ANW Resident Artist. With ANW: Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra, Valentine in Twelfth Night, Mrs. Winewiller in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Marianna/Mistress Overdone in Measure for Measure, Mrs. Joe/Biddy in Great Expectations, Widow Quin in The Playboy of the Western World, Belinda Blair in Noises Off, Hortensia in The Rehearsal, Nancy/Ensemble in Oliver Twist, Mistress Quickly in Henry IV, Part 1, Hannah Jelkes in The Night of the Iguana, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, among others. Other Theatres: American Conservatory Theatre, Nassau Repertory, Kenyon Festival Theatre, The Westbank (NYC), and The Matrix Theatre (LA). Film/TV: Various television guest star roles. Audio Books: Gapcreek and The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan, produced by John Runnette. Education/Training: English Speaking Theatre, Copenhagen; BFA from Denison University; the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, tutorials with Michael MacGowan; graduate and company member of the American Conservatory Theatre.

Gary Ballard

Grampa Joad

With ANW: Debut.  Other Theatres: Theatre 40, Escape From Happiness, Little Murders, Rumors, Spin, Halo; Actors Co-op, Light Up the Sky, You Can’t Take It With You, The 1940’s Radio Hour; Fountain Theatre, Orpheus Descending, Summer and Smoke (1999 Ovation Award, best production); Theatre Banshee, Red Noses, Tent Meeting; Theatricum Botanicum The Winter’s Tale;  Gene Dynarski Theatre Sweet Bird of Youth; Horizon Theatre, Neil Simon’s Fools (west coast premiere); Zephyr Theatre, Southern Baptist Sissies; Kaleidoscope Players of Santa Fe, Who’s Happy Now?, Hay Fever, The Taming of the Shrew; Everyman Players national tours, The Tempest, Sophocles’ Electra;  Film/TV: Defending Your Life, Murder in the First, Blue Shark Hash, Mad Men, Big Love, Scrubs, Veronica Mars, E R, Profiler, Living Single, The Bates Motel, The O. J. Civil Trial, Max Headroom.  Education/training: BA, theatre & journalism, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss); graduate studies, theatre, Memphis State University; additional studies, John Dehner, Stephen Book, Clu Gulager, Andrew Benne.

Mark Jacobson

Noah Joad

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: Threesomes at Rogue Machine Theatre,The Hold at Theatricum Botanicum, What’s Wrong with Angry? at Celebration Theatre,  Assassins, Is He Dead?, The 4^th Graders Present An Unnamed Love-Suicide at Coeurage Theatre Company, Albert Herring at LA Opera, Frog Belly Rat Bone at Rogue Artists Ensemble, Much Ado About Nothing at Colonials Shakespeare Co., The Pentagon Papers at Santa Monica Playhouse, Engaged at Sierra Madre Playhouse,  King Lear at Oval House, London,  Fugue for Edgar Allan Poe at Theatre Mab, Twelfth Night at Downtown Repertory,  among others. Member/Director of Development at Coeurage Theatre Company. Film/TV: The Secret Children, Dracula Rising, Mont Rève, A&E’s Look Who’s Stalking, Attack of the Show, Tattoo Nightmares, and Unusual Targets among others. VoiceOver: Pearson Digital Learning, National Endowment for the Arts. Education/Training: Upright Citizens Brigade; The Groundlings School; British American Drama Academy; B.A. in Theatre, University of Southern California, Magna Cum Laude.

Josh Clark

Uncle John Joad

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: Broadway: Execution of Justice, Alice in Wonderland, The Man Who Came to Dinner.  Off-Broadway: Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, American Place, Hudson Guild.  Regional: Mark Taper Form: iWitness, The Subject was Roses (u/s for Martin Sheen). Pasadena Playhouse: Biloxi Blues, Of Mice and Men. Colony: Savannah Disputation (Ovation Nomination). Antaeus Theatre: Autumn Garden, Peace in our Time, Mother Courage, You Can’t Take it With You.  Boston Court: Bleed Rail. Williamstown Theater Festival, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Walnut, Cincinnati Playhouse, among others.  Six National tours with LA Theatreworks. Film/TV: Faster, Big, Ragtime, Dark Breed, I Am I, Little Nikita, Shameless, Scandal, Modern Family, The Mentalist, Pretty Little Liars (recurring), Desperate Housewives, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, ER, 24, Sleeper Cell, Lincoln Heights, Law and Order: LA, Dirt, Everybody Hates Chris, Supah Ninjas, Heroes (5 episodes), Star Trek Voyager (8 episodes), among others.

Lili Fuller

Rose of Sharon

With ANW:  Debut. Other Theatres:  Little Red in Into The Woods (Starlight Theater); Meg Brockie in Brigadoon, Antoinette in A Flea In Her Ear (USC School of Dramatic Arts); Sally Brown in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Mae in The Wild Party (Musical Theatre Repertory); Revolutions, The Jungle Book, NeverWonderLand, and Stations (Boom Kat Dance Theatre).TV/Film:  NBC's Whitney, Complete Works. Education/Training:  Studies acting with Larry Moss. Graduate of the University of Southern California.

Jesse Peri

Connie Rivers

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres:  With The University of Michigan ‘s University Productions, Malcolm in Macbeth, Grigori in Pentecost, Sir Charles Freeman in The Beaux’ Stratagem, Laurant in Tartuffe, Francis Nurse in The Crucible, and Joe Stoddard in Our Town. Film/TV The V-Card (Short), Shark Tank (Short), Nain Rouge (Short). Education/Training: B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from The University of Michigan.

Andrew Hellenthal

Al Joad

With ANW: Debut. Education: Actors Workout Studio.

Dorrie Braun

Mrs. Wainwright

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: Evelyn in The Gingerbread Lady, Domina in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Queen Victoria in A Piece of Tin,  Marmee in Little Women: The Musical, Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a Mattress, Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Lucinda in iGhost, Ghost of Past in A Christmas Carol, Gertrude in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Judith in Feedback, Daphne in Aftershocks, Abigail in Scrooged Up among others. Education/Training: B.A. in Music, Stanford University; M.A. in Music, Claremont Graduate University; J.D., U.S.C. School of Law; 2-Year Meisner Program, Laura Henry Acting Studio.

Douglas Rory Milliron

Deputy Sheriff / Ensemble

With ANW: Asst. Director on Comedy of Errors and Understudy for John Buchanan in Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Other Theaters: Stanley in Streetcar Named Desire and Mr.Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. Education/Training: MFA from Florida, Acting Intern at ANW.

Ranya Jaber

Ruthie Joad

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: L.A. Opera: Granddaughter in The Two Foscari, Sierra Madre Playhouse: Scout Understudy/Walter Cunningham Jr's Sister in To Kill A Mockingbird, Alice Cratchit/Young Fanny in A Christmas Carol, Angel in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Whitefire Theater: Young Lydia in Borderline, Glendora Performing Arts: Christabel in Snow White Film/TV: Farah in Disney's Treasure Buddies, The Fresh Beat Band, Samsung, Gelarti Designer Studio, Target, Little Caesars, Clorox.

Nicholas Neve

Winfield

With ANW:  Debut. Other Theatres: Little Joey in The Resting Place at Hale Center Theatre, guest singing artist in Broadway Classics in Concert and toured Europe, as a violinist, with Rocky Mountain Strings. Film/TV: Young Jake in Broken Horses, Michael in The Letter Writer, Scott/Boy in The Wayshower, Young John in Toyland, Meditations, Gimpy Pete in Tough Guy, Adam in A Sunflower, Jos in Finding Jos Jandreau and Joseph in Aria. Education/Training: Currently in 6^th grade.Violin, Singing, Dance & black belt in Kung Fu.  Acting Coaches include Karen Storms, John Hama, John D’Aquino and Young Actor’s Space.

Fionn James

Boy in the Barn

With ANW: Debut.  Other Theatres: Peter Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, Sierra Madre Playhouse;  Chorus in La Boheme, LA Opera; Thomas in Abigail:1702, Center Theatre Group;  Boy in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Knightsbridge Theatre;  Philippe in Cyrano de Bergerac, Knightsbridge Theatre; Ensemble/Musician in The Grapes of  Wrath, Knightsbridge Theatre; Chorus in Turandot, Hollywood Bowl; Chorus in Powaqqatsi, Hollywood Bowl; Tiny Tim in A  Christmas Carol, Glendale  Center  Theatre; Freddie in Will Rogers Follies, Glendale Center Theatre; Astyanax in Trojan Women, Knightsbridge Theatre; Pheres in Medea, Knightsbridge Theatre. Film/TV: 5^th Street, Kelp, Mood, Funny or Die. Education/Training: Los Angeles Children’s Chorus.

Guerin Barry

Musician / Ensemble

With ANW: Debut. With Other Theatres: Gabe in That Perfect Moment, Mauritz Stillar in the new musical, Garbo Talks, himself in his acclaimed one-man show, Lips,Inc. and Sydney in The Coming Out Party. Film/TV: Modern Family, The Empire Strikes Back, Star 80, Elvis. LA Law, Murder She Wrote, Colombo, Brothers, Buck Rogers in the 25^thCentury and Days of Our Lives among others. A busy voice actor, he is featured in the video games, Starcraft and World of Warcraft and also narrates and directs audiobooks, including, Prince of Fire, Liberty, Liars and Thieves, The Hunt Club and others. Guerin/Tito has rocked around the world as a member of the ‘50’s group, Sha Na Na.  The “Best Whistler in the World”, Guerin whistles for composers of TV and feature film music. Education/Training:  Leland Powers School of Radio, Television and Theater, Milton Katselas, Herb Edelman, Scott Kellman.

Matt Foyer

Musician / Ensemble

With ANW: Howie Newsome in Our Town, and French Brigand in Man and Superman. Other Theatres: The Winter’s Tale (Theater 150, Ojai), Unfinished American Highwayscape #’s 9& 32, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Tartuffe (The Theater@Boston Court, Pasadena), tir na nOg (The Magic Theatre, San Francisco), The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland), Honus & Me, and A Wrinkle in Time (Mainstreet Theatre Company, Rancho Cucamonga), The Muesli Belt, The Field, The Crucible, Henry IV, pt. 1, Power (Ovation Nominee – Featured Actor), and What the Butler Saw (Theatre Banshee), among others.

Robert Oriol

Musician / Ensemble

With ANW: As You Like It. Other Theatres: Music Composition and Sound Design for Oedipus El Rey at Boston Court. Music Direction and Sound Design for God Save Gertrude at Boston Court. Sound Design for A Picture of Dorian Gray at Boston Court. Music Composition and Sound Design for Crawl, Fade to White at Theater of Note. Sound Design for Spider Bites at Theater of Note. Film/TV: Original Music Score for A Cross in Time. Original Music Score for Survival of the Fattest.

Stephen Rockwell

Musician / Ensemble

ANW Resident Artist. With ANW:Anselme in The Bungler,Peter in Desire Under the Elms, Lucio in Measure for Measure, Frederick Fellowes in Noises Off, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Don Carlos in Don Juan, Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale, Jamie Cregan in A Touch of the Poet, George F. Babbitt in Babbitt, Captain MacNure in Ubu Roi, Roderigo in Othello, Lysander in A Midsummer Nights Dream atThe Hollywood Bowl, Orestes in Electra, Swallow in A Wilde Holiday, Deramo in The King Stag, Banquo in Macbeth,Tom Wrench in Trelawny of the Wells, Oscar Hubbard in The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest, Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie, Joe Gargery in Great Expectations and more! Other Theatres: Three Songs at the Fremont Centre Theatre; Seven seasons with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; LATC, ACT. Film/TV: The Soul Man, The Mikes (Pilot),  In Justice, Rodney, The Comeback, Hawaii, Malcolm In the Middle, Good Morning Miami, Miss Match, ER, Roswell, M.Y.O.B., The Drew Carey Show, 3rd Rock From the Sun. Education/Training: B.A. in Drama - Vassar College; M.F.A. - American Conservatory Theatre.

Korey Simeone

Musician / Ensemble

With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Visit, Fiddler on the Roof, Down, Baby, Down Film/TV: Sin City, Prison Break, Friday Night Lights, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Blake Shelton's Christmas Special, Nightlife. Bands: The Austin Lounge Lizards, The Asylum Street Spankers, The Get Down Boys, The Box Car Preachers.

James Ferrero

Ensemble

With ANW: Henry Peabody in Tobacco Road (Resident Artist Reading Series), Ensemble in A Christmas Carol, Ensemble in Cymbeline. Other Theatres: Understudy in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare to Go) at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Peter in Romeo and Juliet at The Downtown Repertory Theater, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Miles in Eight at DU Players’ Theatre, Sorin in The Seagull at UC Santa Cruz, Cancer Man in Holy Ghosts at UC Santa Cruz, Monk/Ensemble in Hair at UC Santa Cruz, Newman Noggs in The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Part 1 at UC Santa Cruz. Education/Training: B.A. in Theater Arts, University of California Santa Cruz; A Noise Within Professional Acting Internship Fall 2012; Drama, Trinity College Dublin; OSF Summer Seminar for High School Juniors.

Kristina Teves

Ensemble

With ANW: Ensemble in Antony & Cleopatra. Other Theatres: Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare By The Sea, World Premeire of Susan Lori Parks’  365 Days/365 Plays atBerkley Rep, Hamlet in Hamlet at Nixon Thetare,  Juliet in Romeo &  Juliet at Santa Clarita Shakes, Belle/Fan/Laundress in A Christmas Carol atTorrance Theatre Company, Doctor/Hecate/Porter in Macbeth at Archway Theatre,  Amiens in As You Like it  at Santa Clarita Shakes Jackie in Runaways atDublin Theatre Company, Evelyn Munn in The Children’s Hour at Dublin Theatre Company Quintus/2^nd Goth in Titus Andronicus at Claire Trevor Theatre. Education/Training: B.A Honors in Acting UC Irvine.

Caleb Austin

Ensemble

ANW Intern. With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: Orlando in As You Like It with Howick Litle Theater,  Pompey/Eros in Antony & Cleopatra with GreenStage, Adam Jenkins in Sex in Seattle; Ep. 18 & Ep. 19 with SiS Productions, Benvolio/Balthazar in Romeo & Juliet with GreenStage, Lysander in Midsummer Night’s Dream with Burien Little Theater, Hawkeye Pierce in M.A.S.H.  with FIT College Players. Film/TV: Power Rangers Samuari. Education/Training: Freehold Studios in Seattle, and Cornish College of The Arts; B.A. Drama.

Henry Funk

Ensemble

ANW Intern. With ANW: Debut. Other Theatres: University of Puget Sound. Education/Training: ANW Acting Internship; B.A. in Business, University of Puget Sound.

Cristina Gerla

Ensemble

With ANW: Debut.  Other Theatres: Legally Blonde, Romeo & Juliet, Little Women: The Musical, A Christmas Carol at PCPA Theaterfest; RENT, Paradise Lost, 25th…Spelling Bee, Dido & Aeneas at UCLA; Pericles at RADA. Education/Training: B.A., Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program at UCLA; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; PCPA Theaterfest Professional Acting Internship.

Jennifer Losi

Ensemble

ANW Intern.  With ANW:  Debut.  Other Theatres:  Isabelle in My Sister in This House at Deaf West Theatre, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, She in Accelerando, Madge in Picnic, Susan Walker in Once in a Lifetime, Leslie Ann in Hot 'n' Throbbing, Bonnie in American Storm (World Premiere).  Education/Training:  B.A. in Drama, Washington University in St. Louis.